Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

Jump down new rabbit holes with Timesuck, the weekly podcast that takes you on a fascinating and bizarre journey through history’s darkest corners, most shocking conspiracies, and wildest true stories. Hosted by acclaimed standup comedian and storyteller Dan Cummins, each episode blends dark humor with deep research to uncover hidden truths about infamous historical figures, unsolved mysteries, notorious serial killers, and more. If you crave the weird, the wild, and the unexpected, Timesuck is your next obsession!

And check out the Short Sucks, a new series of 40-60 minute episodes two Fridays a month. These bite-sized stories are perfect for when you want a quick dose of Timesuck (or need more addictive content to consume while you’re waiting for your next Timesuck!)

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Oct 28, 2025 · 1 hr 30 min
Nightmare Fuel 31: The House of Hurt
Time for another Halloween week Nightmare Fuel! This one is from this past May. And in it, we head to Upstate New York's Woodhull Mountain, where Gabe and Hassan see a very strangely placed house on the side of the hill while out on a hike. When Gabe enters the house, he leaves behind our world, and enters a space outside of it - a dark and mysterious space dedicated mostly... to pain. Hope you like it!
Oct 27, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min
Nightmare Fuel 28: He'll Make You Whole
This isn't a mistake, meatsacks! I've been wanting to show you some of the new fictional content I've been working on for awhile now. And the week of Halloween seemed like a great time to do it. This week, I'll be sharing five of my favorite Nightmare Fuels with you here on the Timesuck feed, staring with this story I wrote back in March. It's 1989 and a pawn shop owner has found some chilling home video footage of two film students investigating an urban legend set inside a local abandoned insa
Oct 27, 2025 · 2 hr 8 min
478 - The Hog Trail Killer
In the mid-1990s, the quiet backwoods of southwest Florida became the hunting grounds of a sadistic killer the media would dub “The Hog Trail Killer.” What began as a routine hog hunt quickly spiraled into one of the most gruesome investigations in Florida history - a string of bodies found in the woods, all bound, mutilated, and left to rot. This week, we look at Daniel Owen Conahan Jr., the man accused of turning Charlotte County’s wilderness into his personal killing field, and explore the ch
Oct 24, 2025 · 57 min
Short Suck #44: The Victorian Monster of Spring-Heeled Jack
From ghostly prankster to urban legend, Spring-Heeled Jack terrorized Victorian London with blue flames, metallic claws, and impossible rooftop leaps—so much so that a Ripper-era letter in 1888 claimed his name. This Short Suck traces the 1838 panic through hoaxes, aristocratic “bets,” and mass hysteria to ask what Jack revealed about a rapidly modernizing empire’s fears.
Oct 20, 2025 · 2 hr 5 min
477 - The Ogress of Reading and the Horrors of Baby Farming
In Victorian England, “baby farming” turned unwanted infants into a deadly business. Amelia Dyer, known as The Ogress of Reading, used it to hide an unimaginable number of murders - hundreds of them. This week, we expose the grim world of baby farming, the cruelty of Victorian morality, and how one of the most prolific killers in British history was only a small part of a much bigger problem.
Oct 13, 2025 · 2 hr 37 min
476 - The Backpacker Killer: Ivan Milat
When seven backpackers vanished in the early 1990s, the vast Australian bush became the hunting ground of a sadistic killer. For years, hikers stumbled upon shallow graves in Belanglo State Forest—each revealing new horrors and the same gruesome pattern of torture and execution. The man responsible, truck driver Ivan Milat, would become known as the “Backpacker Murderer,” one of Australia’s most infamous serial killers. This week, we dive into his brutal crimes, the survivor who helped catch him
Oct 10, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
Short Suck #43: Crescent Hotel Horrors: From Healing Springs to... Hauntings?
Once hailed as a luxurious spa retreat in the Ozarks, the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs would earn a far darker reputation - one of fraud, tragedy... and restless spirits. From its days as a supposed healing haven to a hospital of horrors run by a quack doctor, the Crescent has been called America’s most haunted hotel. Step inside its haunted halls, if you DARE....on this historical and paranormal October episode.
Oct 6, 2025 · 2 hr 58 min
475 - Dragon vs. Eagle: Will China Dethrone the US?
From AI breakthroughs and supply chains to TikTok and military might, China’s rise has reshaped global power over the past few decades. Can the U.S. hold onto its superpower status, or is the “American Century” nearing its end? What will the world look like, if reshaped in China's image? All this and more on a VERY informative (and ultimately hopeful) edition of Timesuck.
Sep 29, 2025 · 2 hr 47 min
474 - Krumping for Christ! The 7M Cult & Christian Nationalism
This week, we deep dive into Pastor Robert Shinn, his Shekinah Church, and his management company 7M Films - and examine how a modern cult has (allegedly) exploited TikTok dancers, financially abusing them, sexually abusing members, while also possibly being connected to the very popular and scary Seven Mountains Mandate that has current Whitehouse connections.
Sep 26, 2025 · 49 min
Short Suck #42: The Dingo Took the Baby: The Lindy Chamberlain Saga
In 1980, a camping trip at Australia’s magical Uluru sandstone monolith turned into an international media storm when nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from her family’s tent. Her mother, Lindy, cried out that a dingo had taken her baby. What followed was a decades-long battle of flawed science, media hysteria, wrongful conviction, and one of the most infamous trials in Australian history.
Sep 22, 2025 · 2 hr 28 min
473 - Selena! When Fame Turns Fatal
Selena Quintanilla rose from an impoverished Texas childhood to become the Queen of Tejano music, breaking barriers and inspiring millions before her life was cut short at just 23 years old. This week, we’ll dive into her meteoric rise, her shocking murder, and also look at the dark dangers of obsessive fandom. From Selena to John Lennon to Dimebag Darrell and beyond, this is the story of when adoration turns deadly.
Sep 15, 2025 · 2 hr 41 min
472 - The Girl in the Box
On May 19th, 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan was hitchhiking from her home in Eugene, Oregon, to a friend's birthday party in the little Northern California town of Westwood. She was picked up in Red Bluff, California by a young couple, Cameron and Janice Hooker, who were out for a drive with their infant daughter. What followed was one of the most outrageous and lengthy periods of captivity I've ever heard of.
Sep 12, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
Short Suck #41: Stalin's Cannibal Gulag: Nazino Island
In 1933, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had his secret police goons round up hundreds of thousands of former farmers and he sent them into Siberia to create labor camps where they would be forced to work. Many would die along the way, including the over 6,000 unfortunate enough to end up on Nazino Island, where innocent people were dumped with no food other than raw flour, no clean water, no shelter, no medicine, and no protection from each other. Starvation and desperation quickly led to canniba
Sep 5, 2025 · 2 hr 12 min
471 - South Africa's Ted Bundy: Moses Sithole
In the mid-1990's, convicted rapist Moses Sithole went on a murderous rampage in South Africa. He would blame his sadistic crimes on being falsely imprisoned for a rape conviction in 1989 for which he would serve four years. But he wasn't, of course, falsely convicted. He had been raping woman after woman after luring them out into a secluded area with the promise of a new job. The same con he would later use to lure nearly 40 women to their deaths in 1994 and 1995.
Sep 1, 2025 · 2 hr 29 min
470 - Trial of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
In many ways, America's modern obsession with true crime began on March 1st, 1932, when the 20-month-old-son of the most famous man in America, aviator Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from his fortress of a home. The press would cover the subsequent investigation and trial of the man responsible like the press had never covered a crime before. There was so much public interest in this case, that Charles and his wife would literally leave the country to avoid the public's intense and overwhelmin
Aug 25, 2025 · 2 hr 40 min
469 - Action Park: America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
If you were lucky enough to have gone to New Jersey's Action Park before it closed in the '90s, you probably have the scars to prove it. This place was WILD. And while I understand why there are no longer parks around like it today, I also really, really wish I could've been there. This is a fun one!
Aug 22, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min
Short Suck #40: 764 The Real Global Satanic Pedophile Cabal
I have long dismissed whisperings of secret Satanic pedophile networks. But, it turns out there truly is an international group associated with a kind of Satanism reminiscent of 1980's Satanic Panic. It's called 764. It exists online. It's growing larger, seemingly, by the day. It's very real. And it's extremely terrifying.
Aug 18, 2025 · 2 hr 25 min
468 - Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Killer
The Times Square Killer didn't just kill in Times Square. Richard Francis Cottingham committed at least six murders in New York State between 1972 and 1980, plus an additional thirteen murders in New Jersey between 1967 and 1978. While he primarily targeted sex workers, he also kidnapped women and girls as young as thirteen off of the street. Today we both look at his crimes and also, explore the interesting and seedy history of Times Square, site of his most gruesome killings.
Aug 11, 2025 · 2 hr 32 min
467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!
Did you know that roughly a million people in Russia today make their living as some kind of wizard, witch, or folk healer? And that some of the most popular TV programs in Russia in the '90s were presentations of psychic healers and self-proclaimed sorcerers? Russians have a long history of believing in magic, with old Slavic spiritual beliefs surviving Russia's past Christian takeover thanks to Russia's system of dual beliefs.
Aug 8, 2025 · 56 min
Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown
You'll be hard pressed to find a man who stood for his convictions more firmly than John Brown. John was an white abolitionist willing to do more to end slavery than any other man - of any color - in America in the 1850s. It wasn't enough for John to speak out against slavery, or to help freed slaves find freedom through the Underground Railroad. John felt that if slaveowners weren't willing to immediately free their slaves and renounce their ways, they deserved death. And he felt called by God

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Nightmare Fuel 31: The House of Hurt

Nightmare Fuel 28: He'll Make You Whole

478 - The Hog Trail Killer

Short Suck #44: The Victorian Monster of Spring-Heeled Jack

477 - The Ogress of Reading and the Horrors of Baby Farming

476 - The Backpacker Killer: Ivan Milat

Short Suck #43: Crescent Hotel Horrors: From Healing Springs to... Hauntings?

475 - Dragon vs. Eagle: Will China Dethrone the US?

474 - Krumping for Christ! The 7M Cult & Christian Nationalism

Short Suck #42: The Dingo Took the Baby: The Lindy Chamberlain Saga

473 - Selena! When Fame Turns Fatal

472 - The Girl in the Box

Short Suck #41: Stalin's Cannibal Gulag: Nazino Island

471 - South Africa's Ted Bundy: Moses Sithole

470 - Trial of the Century: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

469 - Action Park: America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park

Short Suck #40: 764 The Real Global Satanic Pedophile Cabal

468 - Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Killer

467 - Russian Wizards, Witches, and Folk Magic, Oh My!

Short Suck #39: The Abolitionist John MF'n Brown